Rep. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) introduced a resolution to expunge former President Donald Trump’s 2019 impeachment and restore “credibility to the impeachment process.”
Mullin’s resolution argues the facts and circumstances on which the articles of impeachment were based “did not meet the burden of proving the commission of ‘high crimes and misdemeanors’ as set forth in Section Four of Article II of the United States Constitution.”
In a press release, Mullin said the impeachment “was an unimaginable abuse of our Constitution,” adding, “Democrats in Congress put politics over country and threw all democracy out the window to unseat our president. This is exactly what our Founding Fathers warned against. While we cannot undo history, we can make it right. This resolution will bring credibility back to the impeachment process and ensure this manipulation never happens again.”
He continued, “President Trump was impeached over a sabotaged, perfect phone call. The hearsay of witnesses completely contradicted the plain text of the transcript. Facts did not matter, and Democrats in the House impeached President Donald J. Trump, nevertheless. Now, we have Joe Biden stoking international crises with public comments surrounding the same nation. And Democrats in Congress remain predictably speechless.”
I’ve introduced a resolution to expunge the first impeachment of President Trump. The entire charade was an unimaginable abuse of our Constitution & exactly what our Founders warned against. We must restore credibility to the process. Let’s make it right.https://t.co/i2LSgEDDoM
— Markwayne Mullin (@RepMullin) March 29, 2022
In December 2019, the House voted to impeach the former president. On the first article of impeachment, abuse of power, the vote was 230 to 197. The vote on the second, obstruction of Congress, was 229 to 198.
“It doesn’t really feel like we’re being impeached,” Trump said at the time. “The country is doing better than ever before. We did nothing wrong. We did nothing wrong. And we have tremendous support in the Republican Party like we’ve never had before.”
In February 2020, the Senate acquitted Trump.
